African Arguments
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Darfur before: technologies, symbolism and multiple identities
Over the last 50 years several interconnected crises (ecological, economic, and political) have been building up in Darfur, culminating with atrocities of killing, rape, ... -
Kenya: Revisiting Joel Barkan’s Possibility of a Requiem – By Leonerd Wanyama
The Council on Foreign Relations’ (CFR) recently posted on its website a Contingency Planning Memorandum on Electoral Violence in Kenya. The document seems to ... -
Kenya transfixed by its illiberal and rightwing gang of eight – By Daniel Waweru
It’s often said that Kenya’s political parties lack any ideological underpinning. The recent pair of Presidential debates shows this false. The discussion of economic ... -
This time the Kenyan presidential election could have been about issues – By Andrew Green
Since multi-party democracy returned to Kenya in 1992, voting at election time has largely divided itself along ethnic lines. In 2007, when President Mwai ... -
What Space for African Eyes? Travel Writing and Africa in the 21st century – By Fatimah Kelleher
Centuries old, travel writing has been instrumental in crafting perceptions of the world we live in; journeying authors have wielded significant influence over immobile ... -
The Africa Business Briefing Feb 2013: Instability in North Africa/It’s the economy, Zuma! – By Desné Masie
Q1 | January 2013 | February 2013 Desné Masie This is the first edition of our Africa Business Briefing, which will ... -
Chad Hosts Wanted Al-Bashir as Cí´te d’Ivoire Joins ICC – By Stephen Lamoney
As Cí´te d’Ivoire takes a major step towards ensuring accountability for grave crimes by joining the International Criminal Court (ICC), Chad is once again ... -
Ethnic politics on the Zimbabwean campaign trail: do voters really care? – By Marko Phiri
Since independence in 1980, there appears to have been an ingrained political psyche peculiar to Zimbabwe’s Matebeleland region, where the political landscape has been painted in ... -
Waiting for a miracle in Congo: a peace process with many processes and no peace – By Kris Berwouts
Congo is on hold After M23 left Goma in early December, the military situation around the town stagnated. Apart from some repositioning in the ... -
Why the next Pope should be African – By Richard Dowden
Over the decades that I have travelled in Africa I have met only four African atheists. Africans seem naturally networked to religion. All meetings ...
